Improvement in yoke for standards for stove-shelf



L. LONGLEY.

Yoke for Stove-Pipe Shelf.

No. 93,211. Patented Aug. 3, 1869.

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Letters Patent No. 93,211, dated August 3, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN YOKE FOR STANDARDS FOR STOYE-SHELP.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of the same.

Know all men by these presents That I, LUTHER Lonennr, of Leominster, in the county of Worcester, and Commonwealth of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and improved Yoke for Securing Shelf-Standards to Stoves; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, and in which- Figurel represents a top or plan'view of my improved yoke, and

Figure 2 represents a section on line A B, fig.-1.-

-'lo enable those skilled in the art to which my invention belongs, to make and use the same, I will describe my said improved yoke more in detail.

The nature of my invention consists in an oval yoke, made in form shown in the drawings,'aud as hereafter explained.

In the drawings- A represents the yoke, which is made in oval form, having a hub, B, projectin g forward from the centre, and through which a h0le,-a, is formed, for the reception of the lower end of the stove-shelf stand or rod.

.A narrow rib, 1), projects up, in this instance, from the inner face of the yoke, while from the ends 0 0, project up ear-pieces c 0, through which 'passthe fastening-screws d (1.

This stand or yoke is an improvement upon the means of fastening the stove-shelf stand, shown and described inthe patent granted F. H. Hudson, April 20, 1869; I

It will be seen, from the-foregoing description, that,

by my invention, the yoke, which is attached to the bottom of the shelf-standard, is well adapted for use upon a large class of stoves in which the stove-pipe flange, upon the top plate of the stove, is made in oval form, since, in consequence of the oval form of the yoke, in combination with the adjusting-screws d (I, one-size yoke can be securely fastened to several diiferent sizes of stove-pipes] It will be understood that the yoke is arranged upon the top plate of the store, so that it will encircle the base of the pipe in such a manner as to bring the Stitlldfll'dJVlliOll supports the stove-shelves directly in front of the stove-pipe.

As the adjusting and fastening-screws d d are now turned in, they strike against the lower end of the pipe, and force it against the flange on the top of the stove-plate, thereby drawing the front of the yoke back. against the front of the pipe on said flange, whereby the yoke and the lower end of the st0ve-pipe are both securely fastened to the flange of the top plate of the stove.

Having described my improved yoke for stove-shelf,

What I claim as new, and of my invention, and desire to secure by Letters atent, isp 1 A yoke, for securing stove-shelf stands or rods to stoves, constructed in the manner herein shown and described.

LUTHER LONGLEY.

Witnesses THos. H. DODGE, ALBERT E. P umes.- 

